This is a general message for all XNA developers that in XNA 4 it takes typically 1 – 1.5 seconds to create a new BasicEffect object, while only about 100 milliseconds to create an AlphaTestEffect object. So if your load times are horrible and… Read more at http://blog.danskingdom.com... ......
Today I was thinking about using a ClickOnce application in my build process. The problem is, when using an installed ClickOnce application (as opposed to an online one) if an update to the ClickOnce application is published, the application prompts the user to Accept or Skip downloading and applying the new update. This would cause a problem for my automated builds as it would end up waiting forever for a user to click Accept. This post lead me to the answer, which is… Read more at http://blog.danskingdom.com... ......